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Informationen zum Autor Tabish Khair is a critically acclaimed author and poet. His other studies are recognized as significant contributions in areas as diverse as Indian English literature, travel writing, postcolonialism, and gothic fiction. He has won the All India Poetry Prize and his novels have been shortlisted for various major awards and translated into several languages. The Thing about Thugs was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize (2010) and the DSC Prize for South AsianLiterature (2012). At present, he teaches English at Aarhus University, Denmark. Klappentext Xenophobia, the fear or dislike of strangers, can be seen throughout the course of history in the form of communal riots, racist attacks, religious hatred, and genocide. In this book, Tabish Khair studies this fear in a historical, philosophical, and socio-economic context, and offers fresh perspectives on the rise of ethnic, cultural, and religious politics in todays age of globalization.
